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DBMS > Firebird vs. Galaxybase vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Galaxybase vs. STSdb

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store
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Score16.82
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#394  Overall
#42  Graph DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#370  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggalaxybase.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manuals
DeveloperFirebird FoundationChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司STS Soft SC
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20172011
Current release5.0.1, August 2024Nov 20, November 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and JavaC#
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLuser defined procedures and functionsno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access controlno

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